Senior Manager, Enterprise Human Rights

Company: Johnson & Johnson
Location: Virginia
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Job DescriptionThe Johnson & Johnson family of companies is currently hiring for Senior Manager, Enterprise Human Rights to be located at any J&J location in the United States or Europe with an option for remote work. Work location is flexible if approved by the Company except that position may not be performed remotely from Colorado.Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.With $82.6 billion in 2020 sales, Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices markets. There are more than 260 Johnson & Johnson operating companies employing over 135,000 people and with products touching the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world. If you have the talent and desire to touch the world, Johnson & Johnson has the career opportunities to help make it happen.Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion, Johnson & Johnson is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.The Senior Manager will support the Human Rights Strategy Leaders in implementing the human rights strategy, including co-developing high-impact solutions to address human rights risks and impacts in Johnson & Johnson's own operations and supply chain. The role will report to the Enterprise Sustainability Organization.ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will have several areas of responsibilities, including, but not limited to:Supervising And Advising* On an ongoing basis, monitor human rights issues, risks, developments, and benchmarks, including legal, regulatory, and policy requirements; inform Human Rights Strategy Leads, Enterprise Human Rights Governance Council (EHRGC), and other key-stakeholders of these issues, risks, developments, and benchmarks.Lead Human Rights Inquiries And Responses* Serve as internal global point person for requests for information on the enterprise's human rights risks and impacts in relation to its own operations and supply base.* Build and lead a solution (including a process and a content repository) to enable efficient responses to the growing number of human rights-related queries/questionnaires received from customers, governments, regulators, investors, civil society, the media etc; coordinate with internal customer-facing groups and Subject Matter Expert (SME) groups to formulate and issue responses.Training And Capacity-building* Identify the ongoing need for human rights education and training within the organization and work with the Enterprise Human Rights Governance Council (EHRGC), internal and external training SMEs, and functional groups to develop and update training plans and materials.Internal Audits* Work with Environmental Health & Safety team to coordinate internal social audit program (as part of the enterprise's human rights due diligence work): advise on established and applicable standards, customer and/or industry requirements, government regulations, and other relevant standards for social audits; supervise overall corrective action trends and progress; report out audit results to EHRGC as necessary.* Liaise closely with the Global Procurement Human Rights in the Supply Base Program to align on social audit best practices and other complementary efforts to identify, handle and respond to supply base related-human rights risks and impacts.* Work with Corporate Governance team to coordinate disclosure of audit activity and outcomes.Remedy Ecosystem* Build a process flow to receive, triage, and assign human rights complaints related to our own operations and supply base: This work will focus primarily on complaints to our Credo Integrity Line: identify the relevant internal functions to investigate alleged human rights violated; establish a process for the investigation of alleged human rights violations by vendors to the enterprise; work with Corporate Governance team to coordinate disclosure of complaints and remedy.* Provide inputs to the Human Rights Strategy Leads to inform a strategy for the enterprise to engage in other approaches to receive information about legitimate human rights concerns raised by internal and external partners to help the enterprise prevent potential harms to rights-holders and avoid complaints (either publicly made or to the Credo Integrity Line).External Communications & Disclosures* Work closely with the Corporate Governance team, internal SME groups, and third-party providers to draft, revise or coordinate edits to various company statements, disclosures and communications, and responses to ESG ratings questions in the human rights space.Qualifications* A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required; Advanced degree in either Human Rights, Law, Political Science, Public Policy; human rights related course work is preferred* A minimum of 8 years of business experience related to any combination of Human Rights, Supply Chain, Community Impact, Government Affairs and Advocacy, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility or Risk Management is required* Experience implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), preferably in a company setting, or as an external consultant working closely with internal corporate stakeholders is preferred* Human Rights Impact Assessment Experience as well as International Human Rights Exposure is preferred* Multi-country and sector experience across geographies of varied sizes and businesses is preferred* Proven track record to shape complex global programs and orchestrate their implementation in a matrix organization is preferred* Experience in establishing and maintaining strong internal & external relationships across boundaries and cultures, ability to interact with diverse environments is required* Proven Project Management skills and track record for developing effective multi-stakeholder engagement is required* Comfortable in dealing with ambiguity is required* Result driven, bias for action, can challenge the status quo is required* Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to influence. Ability to facilitate alignment across groups/regions* This position can be based at J&J location in the United States or Europe with an option for remote work and may require up to 20% of travel both internationally and domesticallyJohnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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